Welcome To Bandy Association of Indians

Bandy will instantly expand the winter sports universe inside
and outside the present Winter Olympic Universe. For the
Sports Programme to become constitutive it needs to
capture those sports in the geographies and demographics
that actually involve in winter sports in a meaningful way.
This is in the Sub Arctic Climate Zone.

The majority of the current Olympic Disciplines do not have
Universal reach. Rather Winter Olympic Disciplines are
driven by regional or national heritage traditions in districts
in the west. Real ongoing activity should according to the
Olympic Charter (OC) capture the five continents (3rd and
6th Principles). In practical terms for winter sports, the OC
1973 edition said 25 nations on 3 continents. There were
even dissimilar OC rules. New sports had to reach it. Those
on the Programme got 8 years. Dissimilar rules do not align
well in a competition. Most of them have yet not reached it.
The problem is, only ice hockey and alpine skiing have
reached the 45-year-old requirement. Some have reached 2
continents, but still, there are 5 Disciplines that remain on
one continent. In many of the leading nations in the west,
winter sport on snow is conducted in scarcely populated
wintry regions, and not in the entire country.
In winter sports the practical approach would be to embrace
the missing wintry geographical dimensions of the world.
This missing link is Eurasia, key regions in the Nordics and
to unleash the huge ice hockey and ball-sports potential
elsewhere.

Bandy will clearly strengthen the Games. Bandy has real
ongoing activity on 3 continents. Bandy captures the world
heritage of ball-sport. Bandy will as an important heritage
sport fill out the missing link in Eurasia, major regions in the
Nordics and unleash the ice hockey and ball-sports potential

Bandy History

Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct
a ball into the opposing team's goal.
The sport is considered a form of hockey and has a common background
with association football, ice hockey and field hockey. Like football, the game is
normally played in halves of 45 minutes each, there are eleven players on each
team, and the bandy field is about the same size as a football pitch. It is played
on ice like ice hockey, but like field hockey, players use bowed sticks and a small
ball.

A variant of bandy, rink bandy, is played to the same rules but on a field the size
of an ice hockey rink, with ice hockey goal cages and with six players on each
team, or five in USA Rink Bandy League. Traditional eleven-a-side bandy and
rink bandy are recognized by the International Olympic Committee. More informal
varieties also exist, like seven-a-side bandy with normally sized goal cages but
without corner strokes. Those rules were applied at Davos Cup in 2016.

Rink bandy has in turn led to the creation of the sport rinkball. Bandy is also the
predecessor of floorball, which was invented when people started playing with
plastic bandy-shaped sticks and lightweight balls when running on the floors of
indoor gym halls.

Based on the number of participating athletes, bandy is the world's second-most
participated winter sport after ice hockey.

Bandy is also ranked as the number
two winter sport in terms of tickets sold per day of competitions at the sport's
world championship.

However, compared with the seven Winter Olympic sports, bandy's popularity
among other winter sports across the globe is considered by the International
Olympic Committee to have a, "gap between popularity and participation and
global audiences", which is a roadblock to future Olympic inclusion.